You are certainly creative! and I will check out ‘Mary’s Nest’, and will remember the tea bag idea when I finally get down to pickling.
I see the little unwaxed pickle-cukes at the local ethnic store in Summer, but I don’t really recall seeing them at the supermarket.
(We have an Aldi nearby, and I like going there near Christmas time - they have lots of European chocolate stuff, then. But normally, their parking lot is hell to deal with, so we stay away. We do have a Lidl, and they have lots of nice things, as well - though the pickings seem to have become slim since Covid.)
BTW, I think the tea bag is only for refrigerator pickles, not processed ones, though.